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Fahrenheit Advisors Names John Griffin Managing Director and Executive Search & Recruiting Practice Leader
John Griffin, an accomplished operations and recruiting executive whose work in the Richmond business community has accelerated growth at start-up and Fortune 500 companies, has joined Fahrenheit Advisors as managing director and leader of the firm’s Executive Search & Recruiting Practice.
Griffin leads a fast-growing team of dedicated search professionals who collaborate with clients nationwide to find skilled talent for…Read More -
Best Practices to Advance DEI Initiatives in Any Work Environment
Remote and hybrid work is here to stay, forcing employers to adapt and evolve on multiple fronts. In this new era of work, how do workplaces avoid reversing the progress made towards diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)?
It starts with a shift in focus about how we perceive “work.” Work is no longer a place we go, but something we…Read More -
Lawyers: How to Build an Effective Prospect List To Increase Sales
Because lawyers have only a small amount of time for business development, it is important to be intentional about the prospective clients they pursue. Here is some guidance to help lawyers focus and optimize the time that is available for business development.
First, individual lawyers’ prospective clients should be on the firm’s overall prospect list so that sales efforts are…Read More -
5 Tips for Improving Your HR Document Retention Strategy
When compliant record keeping of personnel files and employment documentation is done well, it’s an automated, organized, “this ship runs itself” situation. When done poorly, it’s file cabinets filled with loosely sorted accordion folders and banker’s boxes of the “we keep these separately” medical information folders. Cue the theme music from Halloween.
Perhaps Michael Myers is a bit of a…Read More -
CASE STUDY: Increasing Profitability Through Reporting, Data, and Analytics
Fahrenheit's Finance & Accounting team delivered greater financial clarity, actionable insight, and increased revenue to a fast growing regional administrator of retirement plans. The following case study summarizes the engagement.
ERISA Services, Inc., a family-owned, regional administrator of retirement plans for small and mid-size companies, enjoyed explosive growth over the years, recently launching affiliated companies in new states across the…Read More -
89 Ways a Fractional CFO Can Help Your Business
When you need financial expertise beyond your current team, a fractional CFO is the ace up your sleeve to help you conquer your goals. You get valuable insight and focus without making a full-time hire — and that’s definitely a win for your business.
Whether you’re looking for an expert to take on a special project or you need an…Read More -
Why and When to Develop – and Revisit – Your Strategic Plan
Strategic planning can often be relegated to one of those basic business tasks that leadership engages in once a year and then forgets. After all, there is an inherent fear that too much planning will take away from the doing. But businesses that have really dug their heels into robust strategic planning can attest to it being so much more…Read More -
Fahrenheit Expert Spotlight: Kim Moore, Business Advisory Consultant
Kim Moore is an automation evangelist. For her, robots are not threatening humanoids or massive assembly line machines. They are lines of software code, accessible to businesses of any size, that can connect digital systems and automate repeatable processes – optimizing business operations by freeing humans for higher level, more valuable work.
“Even small gains in productivity and efficiency are…Read More -
Maximize Business Agility with Financial Statement Close & Reporting Automation
To move your business forward, you need real-time financial data. Better financial data produces smarter insights. Smarter insights support smarter decision-making. And smarter decision-making empowers your business to respond to new opportunities, make strategic adjustments, and, most importantly, drive growth.
Today’s future-forward businesses maximize business agility with financial statement close and reporting automation that promises more accuracy and more access…Read More -
Effective Client Targeting is Critical to Law Firm Growth
The lawyers and professional staff at law firms who are assigned direct responsibility for growing revenue are more effective when leadership provides a clear sales strategy, or at least the ground rules for generating one. Absent such guidance, the firm’s revenue success is dependent on the outcome of random, perhaps disconnected pursuits. Without a sales strategy, opportunities for synergy and…Read More -
Going Paperless Makes Sense and Saves Cents
“Going paperless.” These two words cause anxiety in the business world because they mean change, and most people cling to the status quo like a dog’s grip on a bone. Many believe using paper makes processes and systems more organized, and companies that use physical documents are resistant to changing “the way it’s always been.”
The truth is, as a…Read More -
Automate Hire-to-Retire Processes to Stay Competitive (Series: Part 4 of 5)
The Great Resignation. Remote and hybrid workers. DE&I. Workforce transformation. Upskilling. Record job openings. The talent shortage. The last two years have brought new ideas, new expectations, and new challenges to the world of HR. With the outlook for 2022 bringing more of the same, there’s no better time to get your HR house in order, strengthening hire-to-retire processes to…Read More